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Windows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung Knox

By tim, on February 28th, 2013 Follow tim on Twitter

How good is Windows Phone 8 security? Actually, pretty good. The key features are described here [pdf]:

Trusted Boot prevents booting to an alternative operating system, using the UEFI secure boot standard. Only signed operating system components and apps can run. App sandboxing:

No communication channels exist between apps on the phone other

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Trial apps and in-app purchases easy to hack on Windows 8 says Nokia engineer

By tim, on December 11th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

A principal engineer at Nokia, Justin Angel, has written a piece showing how to hack apps on Windows 8, undermining their potential revenue for the app vendors. “This is an educational article written in the hope both developers and Microsoft can benefit from an open exchange of knowledge,” he says, adding that the article was

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Apps sell better with Live Tiles, says Nokia, with other tips for phone developers

By tim, on November 21st, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended an online seminar by Nokia’s Jure Sustersic on Windows Phone 8 development. It was a high level session so not much new, though Sustersic says the 7.8 update for existing 7.x Windows Phones is coming very soon; he would not announce a date though.

The slide that caught my eye was one on

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Nokia and Windows Phone 8: more questions than answers

By tim, on September 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop announced the Lumia 820 and 920 yesterday in New York; new versions of its high-end Windows smartphones and the first to run the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system. Windows Phone 8 runs the same kernel as Windows 8 on PCs and is a significant step towards unification of Microsoft’s development

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Nokia Lumia strategy needs time, may not have it

By tim, on April 20th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

A quick comment on Nokia’s dismal results for the first quarter of 2012. Sales are down 26% quarter on quarter; Smartphone sales down 38% despite the introduction of the Lumia Windows Phone in Europe. Negative operating margin, heavy losses.

The reasons given?

competitive industry dynamics continuing to negatively affect the Smart Devices and Mobile Phones

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Will Nokia’s Qt come to Windows Phone?

By tim, on February 7th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

When Nokia acquired Trolltech back in 2008, it made perfect sense as a way of supporting development on Symbian, its smartphone operating system, and nudging the Qt project, which provides a cross-platform framework for native applications, more towards mobile rather than just desktop application support. It also made sense as Nokia worked on Maemo and

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Nokia results: hope for Windows Phone?

By tim, on January 26th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

It is almost one year since Nokia’s dramatic announcement that it would transition its smartphone range to Windows Phone. Today the company released its results for the fourth quarter and for the full year 2011, the first since the release of the the Lumia range of Windows Phone devices. How it is doing?

This is

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Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Metro Metro Metro feature in Microsoft’s last keynote at CES

By tim, on January 10th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I watched Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer give the last in a long series of Microsoft keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

There were three themes: Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Xbox with Kinect. It was a disappointing keynote though, mainly because of the lack of new news. Most of the Windows

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ITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform to HP’s nightmare year

By tim, on December 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and networks but is a distant follower in devices and has mixed prospects in the cloud. Winners include Apple, Google, Amazon, and

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Developing for Windows Phone: what’s new

By tim, on November 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

One thing that is easy to overlook in all the talk about Windows Phone, Nokia, and Microsoft’s prospects against iPhone and Android, is that the Windows Phone developer platform has substantially improved with the 7.1 SDK – the phone is 7.5 but the SDK is 7.1, just to confuse you.

Here are a few highlights

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